A LONG tale of two ice cream flavors

**this was also reposted over at the FOOD forum and I don't know how or why

I have a long story that flaunts my ego if you're up for it. Moralistic story, by the way!

Tonight was cheat night for me and my family, and cheat night usually means we get one mutually enjoyed craving enough to satisfy the whole group.

Yes, this could only call for one thing: ice cream!

As we were deciding on a flavor, a cousin of mine stopped us all by saying we should only be having vanilla, as, and this is what she said: "anything vanilla is low-calorie and it's healthier."

She also mentioned something about a local celebrity eating vanilla ice cream everyday as part of her new weight-loss diet, which I won't be getting into.

I retorted by saying that was a stupid notion (rude of me, in hindsight), mostly because I hate vanilla anything, and wanted to get the peanut butter flavor. Plus, it was my treat. I was not going to buy vanilla just because someone was being delusional with her diet science and sounded like she would have believed like this article, had she read it.

It's delusional, is it not? Ice cream is not healthy. It shouldn't be a staple of someone's healthy diet and albeit healthier variations are abound, there's no getting past the fact that a cup of ice cream won't do you good other than to satisfy your sweet tooth.

She told me I was annoying and that everything about me is annoying (I'll have you all know, I've got a five-star personality ;D), so I caved and did something a bit evil to prove her wrong: I bought both vanilla and peanut butter!

How is this evil? Well, I bought a pint of regular vanilla and a pint of peanut butter from two different ice cream-making companies (local Unileiver heartbrand and Nestle), meaning the ice cream qualities are different and have different components and all that shiznazz. Everyone had a half cup of each flavor except me and my cousin. I only had a cup of peanut butter and she only had vanilla— two cups because she's determined to keep the vanilla is low-calorie mindset.

No one checked the nutritional information at the bottom of the tubs.

Regular Chocolate-Peanut Butter: 75kcal per 100ml serving

Regular Vanilla: 231kcal per 1/2 cup

In the end I had around 200 calories of ice cream, while she had consumed around 900 calories or so.

Am I evil? Yes. Am I an egotistical **** who should have just let it slide but wouldn't because I enjoy being right and making other people know the same things I do? Yes.

Should she learn her lesson and seek proper nutrition before calling me out for being mean when all I was doing was correcting her?

I don't know, but she still prefers to believe that vanilla is low-calories.

So, that's it, people. If you don't want to learn things the hard way by having me trick you into eating something you can only assume is healthy before you figure out that it isn't, then read up.

Have any similar stories you wanna share? I am so jonesing for some sympathy right now.

HAHA this is awesome! I have done some similar trickery myself simply for the delaration of "rightness"! It amazes me how people have become so nieve and lazy. No one researches, no one reads, but they're all ready to shove thier "facts" down your throat. Keep up the good work!